| I did not go to college (mainly because i couldn't afford it) and yet i
| still got a good job in web development. so why do so many companies
require
| such degrees? I find upsetting when you get turned down for another
| candidate that has a CS degree, but yet you have more experience. I have
| seen companies turn people away before even speaking with them just
because
| they don't have a degree of any sort. Some of the best programmers that i
| know never even went to college. One day they just picked up a book and
| started reading and applying what they learn from that. what honestly, is
| the difference from; going to school for 4 years wasting a lot of money,
or
| picking up a few books from Barnes and noble or the local university book
| store and learning on your own? a piece of paper that says HERE YOU HAVE
| COMPLETED YOUR CS DEGREE. I have learned more on my own in the last 6
| months than a friend of mine in Spokane, WA. has from Gonzaga University.
| and he is going for his CS Degree. By the time he is done i will have 5 -
6
| years of work experience and he will be stuck looking for one of those
entry
| level jobs because he wasted what time he could have used to learn more
(and
| probably faster), than sitting in class for 4 years to get that special
| piece of paper.
ooook .. here we go. This is going to be disjointed because I am being
constatntly interrupted at work, but here goes ..
Having a 4 year college degree means more than just being able to say you
'learned real good' how to do what your degree is in. Haven't you ever
wondered why it takes 4 years to get that degree? When you go to college,
at least 1/2 of the classes you take have nothing to do with your chosen
field of study. You take things like Philosophy, Religion, Sociology,
Psychology, Biology, Public Speaking, Accounting, English, Technical
Writing, Economics .. the list goes on. Now .. you go to B&N and grab a
book on each of those subjects and read through them and I bet it will take
quite a while. These courses make the student a more well rounded
individual. They promote new ways of thinking and new ways of
understanding. They make the student a little knowledgeable in a wide area
of subjects. They really change your perspective on a lot of things at an
age when people are rather impressionable. I'm sure you can see why
companies would find this type of education desirable .. especially for the
higher paying jobs and management positions.
Then, there are the classes that have to do with the degree you are
persuing. Sure, I can run down to B&N and pick up Ben Forta's CFWACK and
read through it and start doing web sites in CF in no time flat .. but
that's just one language .. and a very easy language at that. In college
you usually get C++, VB/Java, COBOL, SQL, Database Design, Programming
Login, Systems Analysis and Design, etc etc. That's quite a lot of
learning. If you ever want any type of high dollar project management
position, you will need to know a *lot* more than just how to grind out some
code. In short, you don't get to be Dave Watts overnight ;)
OK .. I've been interrupted too much and am just going off on tangent left
and right, so I'm going to end my babbling here. :)
Todd Ashworth --
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Network Administrator
Saber Corporation
314 Oakland Ave.
Rock Hill, SC 29730
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